Ingmar Bergman’s first movie (full of fascinating hints of what was to come) features 18-year old Nelly lives with her foster mother in a small town where she takes pi... more >
Ingmar Bergman’s first movie (full of fascinating hints of what was to come) features 18-year old Nelly lives with her foster mother in a small town where she takes piano lessons and has a blossoming romance with a handsome tenant. But when her glamorous real mother arrives to take her back, she’s torn between her current state of happiness and the tempting promises of which the big city offers. A simple but effective moral fable that contains some of the themes that Bergman returns to over the coming decades. < less
